by svsauthor | Aug 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
Except for an occasional jab at Trump, I rarely bring up politics in my weekly blogs. Today I am making an exception, although even in this blog, the subject is more about me than about any candidate or political position. Last Tuesday was Wisconsin’s primary...
by svsauthor | Aug 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
The summer of ’26 has been an odd one for me. That fact hadn’t hit me until I went fishing yesterday and realized that it was the first time I’d been on the river all year. It is early August, and ordinarily I would have been out a dozen times by now. Part of the...
by svsauthor | Aug 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
I recently watched the PBS special on Henry David Thoreau. Having already read a biography about the man, as well as most of his autobiographical essays, I did not learn much that I didn’t already know. I did find out, however, that it took Thoreau six years after his...
by svsauthor | Jul 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
I have endured days of excessive heat, and I have lived through winters when temperatures never seemed to get out of the single digits. I have also enjoyed (“enjoyed” is the right word) blizzards that put down two feet of snow in a 24-hour period. Never, under any of...
by svsauthor | Jul 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am currently on a delayed flight from Bangor, Maine to Chicago. Manyu and I will miss our connecting flight to La Crosse, so I don’t know when we’ll get home. All that I can do is make the best of it and rough out this week’s blog. ...
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